Lion-O <nosp@m.catslair.org> writes:

>> When doing a Solaris 10 install, how long should the install process sit at
>> the 'testing the upgrade profile, please wait' point? It's been like that for
>> about 3 hours now

>Well, 3 hours is *way* too long for that. That process shouldn't take longer
>than a few minutes.

That's what I thought so I decided to dump the idea of installing Solaris 10
for now and rebooted the machine with the half-upgraded Solaris 9
installation (from 12/03 to 9/05) so it can be put online again as it
supports mail, web, news etc. services for a bunch of other people as well
as me.

I'll have to manually work out what packages off the Solaris 9 HW 9/05
2-of-2 CD need to be installed to complete the HW 9/05 upgrade so that all
the libraries, packages, etc. are up the same revision level since no matter
what I have tried, the machine would not scan the second SOlaris 9 CD at all
so I figured trying an install of Solaris 10 (off real CD's - not CD-R's)
would be a better approach.

Something's really screwed up but the machine runs fine 100 percent of time
except for hardware failures like a problem with the main disk about 2 weeks
ago that required me to do lots of hair-pulling trying to work out how to
keep the old disk drive running without going into thermal shutdown long
enough to pull the old filesystems off usine ufsdump/ufsrestore...

Regards,

Craig.
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